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The difference in how dogs are treated in different regions. My question: why?
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 304487" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I really don't mean that you should dress up your dogs and take them to day care, although we have plenty of them around here. I don't feed my dog super-expensive food because we can't afford it. Heck, the people in this family don't eat super-expensive food. And I never met a vegetarian where I live. I don't try to humanize my dogs and I love the Dog Whisperer. My dogs get "crew cuts" in the summer and grow out in the winter and look mangy at times, but they live with us in the house and are warm when we are warm and cool when we are cool. I can't grasp the concept of dogs living out in kennels in the yard unless, I guess, they are there just as an animal serving a purpose...but I love dogs so much...feel they are such good souls. I couldn't do that. But, as a city girl, I also could never live on a farm where animals were slaughtered. I just couldn't do it. Not saying it's wrong, but that's just the way I am. I couldn't hunt either. I'm kind of a hypocrite. I'll eat a hamburger, but I'm not the one who would kill the cow <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":tongue:" title="tongue :tongue:" data-shortname=":tongue:" />. I digress:</p><p></p><p>It is rescues and shelters in the south, or rather people who work for them, who have told me it's "bad" there and that's why I asked. To me, Kentucky is south, not geographically as much as perhaps culturally. And, yeah, I know southerners think Yankees are rude...lol. I have lots of friends down south and we laugh about the stereotypes of regions. That's why it surprised me when some of my southern rescue friends went on and on about the "problem" of animal neglect in the south, and I wanted to ask about it. </p><p></p><p>I think I got a better perspective now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 304487, member: 1550"] I really don't mean that you should dress up your dogs and take them to day care, although we have plenty of them around here. I don't feed my dog super-expensive food because we can't afford it. Heck, the people in this family don't eat super-expensive food. And I never met a vegetarian where I live. I don't try to humanize my dogs and I love the Dog Whisperer. My dogs get "crew cuts" in the summer and grow out in the winter and look mangy at times, but they live with us in the house and are warm when we are warm and cool when we are cool. I can't grasp the concept of dogs living out in kennels in the yard unless, I guess, they are there just as an animal serving a purpose...but I love dogs so much...feel they are such good souls. I couldn't do that. But, as a city girl, I also could never live on a farm where animals were slaughtered. I just couldn't do it. Not saying it's wrong, but that's just the way I am. I couldn't hunt either. I'm kind of a hypocrite. I'll eat a hamburger, but I'm not the one who would kill the cow :raspberry-tounge:. I digress: It is rescues and shelters in the south, or rather people who work for them, who have told me it's "bad" there and that's why I asked. To me, Kentucky is south, not geographically as much as perhaps culturally. And, yeah, I know southerners think Yankees are rude...lol. I have lots of friends down south and we laugh about the stereotypes of regions. That's why it surprised me when some of my southern rescue friends went on and on about the "problem" of animal neglect in the south, and I wanted to ask about it. I think I got a better perspective now. [/QUOTE]
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